Hay grandes películas de surf, libros y revistas, que pueden ayudarte a entender mejor el surf y su cultura.

He aquí algunos de los más interesantes.

• The Endless Summer (Bruce Brown, 1966)
• Big Wednesday (John Milius, 1978)
• Morning of the Earth (Alby Falzon, 1972)
• Kelly Slater in Black and White (Richard Woolcott, 1991)
• Green Iguana (Jack McCoy, 1992)
• Momentum (Taylor Steele, 1992)
• Searching for Tom Curren (Sonny Miller and Derek Hynd, 1996)
• Thicker Than Water (Chris Malloy, Emmett Malloy and Jack Johnson, 1999)
• Montaj (Matt Gye, 2002)
• Stranger Than Fiction (Taylor Steele, 2008)
• Blue Crush (John Stockwell, 2002)
• Point Break (Katherine Bigelow, 1991)
• In God’s Hands (Zalman King, 1998)
• Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
• Puberty Blues (Bruce Beresford, 1981)
• La primera ola (Pedro Temboury, 2015)

• Nat's Nat and That's That (Nat Young, 1998)
• Mark Warren's Atlas of Australian Surfing (Mark Warren)
• Pipe Dreams - A Surfer's Journey (Kelly Slater with Jason Borte, 2003)
• The Complete History of Surfing (Nat Young, 2008)
• The Encyclopedia of Surfing (Matt Warshaw, 2003)
• Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster (Tim Winton, 1993)
• Occy: The Rise and Fall of Mark Occhilupo (Mark Occhilupo with Tim Baker, 2009)
• Bustin' Down the Door (Wayne Bartholomew with Tim Baker, 1996)
• MP: The Story of Michael Peterson (Sean Doherty, 2007)
• Surfers (Alain Gonfaus, 2006)
• Kosta (Eric Chauche, 2004)

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